Top 25 Things You’d Only Understand If You Grew Up On Long Island

Field trips to Vanderbilt Planetarium, bonfires on Montauk beach, Virginia from Billy Joel’s “Only The Good Die Young”—there are certain people, places and experiences you’d only understand and fully appreciate if you grew up on Long Island. Here are 25 of them:

25. The difference between the Town of Babylon and Babylon Village, that Central Islip is really northeast of Islip, and that Long Beach is a city.

Jaime Franchi is the Executive Editor of Morey Publishing. She covers education and contributes news and entertainment pieces for the Long Island Press, along with occasional op-eds when she's in the mood for some hate mail. Her work can also be found on Salon.com, Milieu Magazine, Huffington Post and The New York Times.